Job Requisition ID #
26WD98263
Autodesk is seeking a
Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team!
As part of your role, you will help design, build, and operate foundational backend services and platform capabilities powering Autodesk Construction Cloud (Forma). You will contribute to scalable cloud infrastructure, internal developer platforms, shared services, and backend systems used across all of the stacks.
Responsibilities- Work as a member of a self-organized agile platform team that builds, owns, and operates core backend services and infrastructure
- Design and develop scalable backend systems and platform services using Node.js and TypeScript
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, observability, and developer experience
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automation, deployment tooling, and operational excellence
- Collaborate with engineering teams across the organization to enable efficient and reliable service integrations
- Participate in architecture, performance optimization, monitoring, and production support
Minimum Qualifications- 5+ years of experience building cloud-native backend systems using Node.js
- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience
- Experience designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems
- Strong understanding of APIs, cloud infrastructure, and backend architecture
- Experience writing clean, performant, and production-ready code
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and production operations
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills (English)
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with platform engineering or infrastructure/backend platform teams
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation
- Experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized environments
- Experience with Git or equivalent distributed revision control systems
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with platform engineering or infrastructure/backend platform teams
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation
- Experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized environments
- Experience with Git or equivalent distributed revision control systems
- Experience using AI-powered engineering tools and AI-assisted software development workflows (such as Claude Code, SDD, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools)
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